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From: jpk@Ingres.COM (Jon Krueger)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,alt.suit.att-bsdi
Subject: Re: UNIGRAM's article on the USL-BSDI suit
Message-ID: <1992Aug5.203748.16361@pony.Ingres.COM>
Date: 5 Aug 92 20:37:48 GMT
References: <25138@dog.ee.lbl.gov> <1992Aug3.143259.23897@crd.ge.com> <1992Aug4.212819.19417@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> <1992Aug05.150156.1019@NeoSoft.com>
Reply-To: jpk@Ingres.COM (Jon Krueger)
Organization: Ingres Division, ASK Computer Systems.
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Karl Lehenbauer asks:
> Why can't USL just buy a copy of BSD/386 and compare it themselves?

Of course they can.  No doubt they have.

Just as they could and doubtless did ftp the NET2 distribution and
examine it.

A better question, therefore, is what is stopping them from telling
us exactly what they think was copied.

-- Jon

Jon Krueger  jpk@ingres.com